Henry Ford

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

I have a theory that the best advertisements come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

[On being partners with Laura Nyro in Tuna Fish Music (Laura’s favorite food was Tuna Fish)] We became partners in this new publishing company.

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

If the boss stands in the way of men getting what they earn, he is not fit to be boss.

A low wage business is always insecure.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your own family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out — either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.